a crank’s progress

Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Feb 2002 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Nov 2002 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Oct 2003 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , June 2004 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Dec 2005 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , July 2005 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Oct 2005 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , June 2006 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Sept 2006 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Nov 2006 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Jan 2007 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , May 2007 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , May 2007 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , May 2007 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed , Sept 2007 Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed today, January 31, 2008….This is all very gooey, like how we’ve killed like, nine of Osama Bin Laden’s #3 guys.

Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.

Keep your La Fonera online, and on Valentine’s Day, you’ll be eligible to win one of the 50 WiFi Frames….There’s still time to keep your La Fonera online and get your free WiFi picture frame!

Pocket Album: Create and print a pocket-sized photo album.
this is very cool.
(tags: photography gifts art cleverideas)

Maybe we do cut too much slack for the candidate we would, as the saying goes, like to have a beer with . On the other hand, if we perceive that a candidate would happily confiscate our beer and jail us for violating the Open Container Law, it would just be common sense to deny him our support.

A rare post about the music industry that isn’t completely depressing
help fund an artist’s new recordings with contributions before it gets made: better (and more realistic) than an advance.
(tags: music business cleverideas art)

Eschew Hobbies, Cultivate Disciplines
[From The Darkling Thrush]

I know that seeing mistakes being made is a great way to learn that mistakes are OK, as long as you learn from them (and no, the lesson is not “never try anything”).

…That’s just one more thing we know without really expressing it, but when you see it as plainly laid out as that and look at reality through that prism, it makes you wonder just how many powerful people are imprisoned in their minds by pain they have never been able to shake off or rise above.

In 2004 Dmitriy Plaks and several of his fellow students at the University of West Georgia tested whether sound waves can douse fires in hopes of using sound to extinguish flames in a spacecraft.

…I still think my idea of dropping dry ice into forest fires deserves a try (the intense cold and the sudden appearance of non-flammable CO2 would take away two of the three things a fire needs — heat and oxygen).

Interesting writeup on Blogs - The New York Review of Books Some history, some current affairs, and a rich assortment of profanity. What would blogs be without it?